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Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) by country

Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Cash Transfers programs (%)

Countries reporting
26
Highest
0.3249 <$2.15 a day
Georgia
Lowest
0 <$2.15 a day
Uruguay
Median
0.0371 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
222

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 0.3249 <$2.15 a day in Georgia; the lowest is 0 <$2.15 a day in Uruguay.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0371 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.0621 <$2.15 a day.

Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 19 fell. The largest increase was in Serbia (up 142.1%), and the largest decrease in Uruguay (down 100.0%).

Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -extreme poor: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Georgia 0.3249 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 10.2% flat
2 Serbia 0.1317 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 142.1% rising
3 Armenia 0.13 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 43.4% rising
4 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.1154 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 60.4% falling
4 Kosovo 0.1154 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 60.4% falling
6 Mexico 0.1123 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 29.1% volatile
7 Pakistan 0.1105 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 0.1% rising
8 Sri Lanka 0.076 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 21.7% falling
9 Kyrgyzstan 0.0602 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 3.3% volatile
10 Indonesia 0.0589 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 82.0% volatile
11 Colombia 0.0565 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 61.7% falling
12 Viet Nam 0.0426 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 20.8% volatile
13 Argentina 0.0383 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 14.5% flat
14 Romania 0.0359 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 22.7% falling
15 Costa Rica 0.0344 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 7.3% volatile
16 Peru 0.0344 <$2.15 a day 2022 — rising
17 Türkiye 0.0337 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 24.6% falling
18 Poland 0.0207 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 19.7% falling
19 Belarus 0.019 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 47.6% volatile
20 Moldova 0.0155 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 76.7% volatile
21 Ukraine 0.0133 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 54.2% falling
22 El Salvador 0.0115 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 89.6% volatile
23 Mongolia 0.0105 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 60.8% volatile
24 Kazakhstan 0.0073 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 86.0% volatile
25 Chile 0.0045 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 50.2% volatile
26 Uruguay 0 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day)
Unit
<$2.15 a day
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
26 places, 222 data points, 2004–2022
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Cash Transfers programs (%)